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Goodbye Miners. More Land. Great Team.
I am back from the Amazon and excited to share with you some of the latest news! I can't write it all here without making this a 10-page newsletter so here are some of the highlights. PARC and the Lower Amazon Forests The main objective of the trip to our brazil nut...
Courage and Diplomacy in Action!
As you might recall, this past December we successfully pressured government officials to return to us our 616 ha brazil nut concession in Madre de Dios. We knew that illegal gold miners had flocked to this remote area during the pandemic. We also knew that some had...
Coming On The Horizon
We are excited to share with you some of our 2023 plans for the Protecting the Lowlands project. 1) Agroforestry Project Within our 616 ha brazil nut concession came 15 hectares that had been cleared for raising cattle. This land is an opportunity for us to educate...
Smile For The Camera
Our Dear Rainforest Protectors, To put it mildly, what an exciting month we’ve had. The camera traps we’ve installed on our newly acquired land (aka. TapirWasi) have already been a success. We are seeing so many fascinating species that call our protected lands home....
Good Guys Finish First!
Our Dear Rainforest Protectors, I’m back from Peru with great news about our Lower Amazon Basin and Cloud Forest projects. But first, a quick update on the political situation in Peru while I was there. It was a crazy time! In case you missed it, Peru is currently in...
Together we can do more!
Our Dear Rainforest Protectors, Thanks to your support we are moving full-steam ahead on our lower Amazon basin and cloud forest projects. Here are the updates! RECLAIMING ARC’s 616-HECTARE BRAZIL NUT CONCESSION In the past month, Darwin Solano has joined the team, as...
An Abundance of Good News!
We have so much good news to report that I don’t even know where to begin! But let’s get started. First, please join us in giving a warm welcome to Elber and Olegario – ARC’s two new forest guardians for our jaguar corridor project. With the help and guidance from our...
GREAT NEWS ON THE JAGUAR CORRIDOR
I’m happy to announce that, thanks to your support, ARC has purchased our first land parcel in the creation of the jaguar corridor! The bureaucracy in Peru can be a LITTLE challenging sometimes - dare I say it can be...
RECLAIMING WHAT’S OURS
Now that COVID restrictions in Peru have been lifted, we can finally get back to business and use all of your donations from the past two years. We are currently finalizing land purchases for our jaguar corridor project in the valley between the mountain ranges of the...
We are back
We’re back! We've returned from our trip to Peru where we were reminded, far too vividly, of why we are doing what we are doing - not that we really needed a reminder. Every day we came across more scenes of deforestation. It is...
And We’re Off
Dear Friends of the Amazon Rainforest Conservancy (ARC), Projects and opportunities continue to develop and so we’re heading back to San Martin, Peru. The goal is to move forward with our projects in the cloud forest region of the Amazon rainforest. We look forward to...
2021 Impact Report
Our 2021 Impact Report is out. Read the Report
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